from Tom Nicholls
Anti-Apartheid supporters in Bristol mounted a picket of the match between Gloucestershire and the South Africans on the opening Saturday. The previous week had seen a more than usual number of letters for and against in the columns of the local evening paper. By the Thursday night there was almost a page-full of letters, mainly for, and in the Evening Post next day there were banner headlines announcing that the Borough Labour Party had come out unanimously in support of the picket and a boycott of the match. A generally sympathetic editorial in the same issue drew attention to the revelations, made by the Rand Daily Mail on prison conditions in South Africa, The picket itself was notable for the number of Young Socialist who took part (although support from Labour Party members could have been much better).